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• Vastu, which is the inspiration behind the Chinese tradition of feng shui, originated in the Indian subcontinent during the flourishing Vedic civilization, which many scholars and archaeologists now date back as early as 6000 B.C. The word Vedic comes from veda, a Sanskrit word that means “knowledge.” The Power of Vastu Living
• Archaeologists attribute the ruin to a flourishing prehistoric kingdom.
• Of the gambling – booths there was a plentiful show, flourishing in all the splendour of carpeted ground, striped hangings, crimson cloth, pinnacled roofs, geranium pots, and livery servants. Nicholas Nickleby
• He called it "eudemonia," that living a flourishing life. CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2005
• Huge tongues of flames, the source of which is disputed, licked the last traces of life from the once flourishing township.
• All about us one sees the flourishing of a vigorous new illiteracy, widely distributed and attached to muscular incivility and crime.
• Greek mainland, the concentration of our population, once dispersed in flourishing centres the world over. Giorgos Seferis - Nobel Lecture
• The British inland waterway system, flourishing in the early nineteenth century, was staffed by a large body of bargees who, like the railway navvies, earned an unenviable reputation for roughness.
• And it was India that was forced to absorb the goods produced while its flourishing textile industry was destroyed. Times, Sunday Times
• In contrast to Rome, Florence appears to present itself as an artistic expression of a particular period, peaking in the 14th and 15th centuries, a period when the Roman origin of its name, "Florentia" or "the flourishing", couldn't have been more apt. The Guardian World News